I have one thing to ask of all of you: sign in to review. I like to respond to them in a PM, and I can't do that if you review as a guest.

Also, people, please, give Naruto some time. He has no reason to be fighting at full power, none at all. If he did (fight at full power), he'd be liable to accidentally kill someone. Ooh… I have an idea.

And someone rightfully pointed out that the Kyūbi is in the same situation as he's been in all of Naruto's life, when he had said that there was nothing to do: trapped inside his gut. I'm fairly certain there was something else I had meant to write down, but… I'ma just say that the Kyūbi was lying to him. There. Reasons.

The suggested pairings were and are:

Naruto x Blake

Naruto x Yang (Kind of)

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or RWBY.

Chapter 4: The Discovery!

Ah, Saturday. The one day that basically every student looked forward to. The day that meant no classes, and usually, no work. For some people, however, it was the day when they caught up on all of their work, because they either didn't do it during the week, or they couldn't.

Now, as should most likely be obvious, Naruto was one of those that didn't do it during the week. And so, for the third week in a row, he found himself seated at a desk in the library, with two essays needing to be completed.

There was an issue though. Naruto had no idea what the essays were meant to be on. He was trying to be productive, really, but everything seemed to be a distraction, culminating in Diana springing up behind him, "HEY!"

He jumped forward over the desk he was sat at, landing facing her, "I. Told. You. To. Stop. That. How do you even sneak up on me like that, anyways? You wear a rainbow, for Kami's sake."

Diana cocked her head to the side, "Who's Kami? Can I meet him?"

Naruto, even though he was still recovering from his near heart attack, grinned at her usual antics, "Well, I hope you don't meet him anytime soon, Diana. He can be a real jerk, always talking about how you're going to hell, and the like."

For whatever reason, this failed to deter Diana, who just leaped over the table to Naruto, and grabbed his shoulders, "Ooh! Can I meet him now? Where does he live? Does he like brownies?"

Naruto, having grown used to rapid-fire questions thanks to a certain silver-eyed girl, counted them off as she spoke, answering each in turn, "Uh… No, a different dimension, and what?"

Out of nowhere, she pulled out a platter stacked high with the chocolaty treats, "Brownies! Troy helped me make them! They're an old family recipe!"

A very dark thought, one of her family members, crossed Naruto's mind, "Wait… you mean there are more people like you? With the rainbows, and everything?"

She shook her head, smiling the entire time she answered, "Nope! They're all dead!"

Naruto waited, but she didn't continue, nor did she stop smiling. "Ok… Could I try a brownie?"

"Do they have those little chocolate bits in them that melt in high temperatures?"

'Why do you care?'

"Kit, I can taste everything that you can. After years and years of ramen, those chocolate bits were one of the best things I have ever tasted."

'You've been very strange since we came here.'

"Hmph."

Diana smiled wider, picking a brownie up off of the plate and handing it to Naruto, "Here you go!"

And with that, she left, skipping off somehow without spilling a single brownie.

'How am I friends with these people, again?'

"Because they make you look normal."

'Hey!'

"Heh."

"Today, we will begin to use Semblances in every match. The point before now was to ensure you do not depend on your inborn abilities to survive in combat," Goodwitch explained. "Such reliance would lead to failure once you were unable to use it further due to a lack of Aura."

"Today, the match will be decided by Mr. Uzumaki."

Naruto stood, and looked around a bit, "I pick… Pyrrha."

For some reason Naruto didn't understand, most people in the room gasped, including Melissa and Weiss. He raised an eyebrow at each of them in turn.

Glynda had no such reaction, "Very well. Mr. Uzumaki, Ms. Nikos, please make your way down to the arena floor."

Standing across from Pyrrha, Naruto noticed several people were snickering up in the stands, though he didn't get why. He turned back to Pyrrha, looking forward to the match.

"May the best fighter win," he said, with a small grin.

"Indeed," she returned.

The classroom watched in anticipation as this crazy guy not only agreed to fight Pyrrha Nikos, but actively sought out the challenge. One group had been laughing amongst themselves as they placed bets on how fast he would lose.

Luckily, Naruto and the fox had conveniently worked out a way to fool the scanner into thinking his chakra was Aura. It had cost him several scrolls, but the things were dirt-cheap anyways.

"Begin," Professor Goodwitch called out, stepping back for what would no doubt be a long match.

Naruto and Pyrrha regarded each other for a moment, studying each other's movements for several seconds, like two seasoned warriors meeting on the battlefield. Naruto, ever the impatient one, charged off to the left as a fake, using his incredible speed to practically disappear, reappearing above her in an instant.

Somehow, she sensed him, too late to dodge, but not too late to block the brunt of his attack. She grabbed his leg, and tried to slam him into the ground, but once again, he disappeared, using his speed to his advantage.

Since they were using Semblances, Naruto assumed she was also using her Aura. If that was the case, then he could use his kunai without fear of harming her too drastically. Pulling out just one to begin with, he came up behind her, only for her to turn around to face him again.

She grabbed the hand holding the kunai, grazing the metal for a moment. He pulled away again, moving to her left, preparing to strike at her side, when his kunai suddenly seemed to change directions on its own. Narrowing his eyes, Naruto moved above her again, coming down faster than she could possibly have tracked him.

But again, his kunai didn't move the way he had aimed it. He retreated a bit, getting some distance, as Pyrrha pulled out her shield and lance. She smiled innocently enough, but whatever she was doing, he needed to get around it. His kunai had moved away from her, as she also dodged slightly to the side.

His kunai… he looked at it, then chucked it as hard as he could at Pyrrha. Her eyes widened, and although she moved to the side to dodge, it shouldn't have been enough. Keeping his eyes on the thrown kunai, Naruto saw it move just slightly to the left, the opposite direction of Pyrrha.

'So that's it…'

"I'm surprised someone like you could figure it out."

'Trying to focus here.'

"Why should I care?"

'Just a little more speed… but no metal.'

Naruto took his weapons pouch of his belt, and dropped it to the ground. Since he had taken the kunai from before out of his leg holster, he had no metal on him.

'Let's see her dodge… THIS!'

Faster than he had moved since coming to Beacon, Naruto made a dead sprint straight for Pyrrha, who was still dodging his kunai. Before she was finished doing even that, Naruto moved in close, and gave her a solid uppercut, sending her flying several feet through the air.

She landed gracefully, but Naruto could tell she was rattled. She looked behind him, seeing his weapons pouch on the ground.

And then the kunai he had thrown hit the wall, producing a huge cracking sound as it buried itself hilt deep. Pyrrha's eyes widened at the sight. If that had hit her, she would have suffered a terrible injury, even with her Aura shielding her.

"Don't take your eyes off of your opponent, Pyrrha," She gasped, but failed to turn and dodge in time, as she suffered a horrible punch to the gut, knocking all of the wind out of her.

She stumbled backwards, clutching her stomach, wheezing. For a guy who relied a lot on his speed, he packed one hell of a punch.

'I wonder if that's how Baa-chan does it,' Naruto wondered, looking at his hand as the chakra receded. He had put far too much into that last punch. He was worried he might have injured her.

She seemed to be able to sense metal, and even manipulate it if she had touched it. And since Naruto had dropped most of his metal, except what was used in the zippers on his jacket, she didn't seem to be able to sense him. He could only think of one reason why.

'Since when is magnetism a fair power? … Gaara…' He thought, just a little jealous.

While he was lost in thought, Pyrrha recovered enough to where she could stand steadily. The entire room was silent.

And yet, Pyrrha was overjoyed. Here was someone else who was much better than her, even though they were in the same year. It meant that she had something new to aspire for: beating Naruto.

Pyrrha, getting her breath back and ignoring the pain, moved into a battle-ready stance, shield raised and sword held at the ready. It was no use, however, when Naruto started using his normal methods of speeding around his opponent and landing hit after hit at random. He was a whirlwind of punches, creating an actual breeze around her.

Finally, he decided to end it with one more punch. Trying to just hit him, Pyrrha stabbed in a slight panic, at random. Accidentally, she impaled his arm. And yet, even with a spear imbedded in him, Naruto sent her flying into a wall, dropping her Aura down into the red zone, and winning the match.

She looked up to see him pull out the lance with a small wince. His pain tolerance was insanely good. Then she realized he was probably minimizing the pain with his Aura.

Pulling out the lance, Naruto immediately went into his mindscape, since time didn't pass the same in it, and screamed for a good five minutes.

"DEAR KAMI ABOVE, THAT'S FUCKING PAINFUL!"

"Yes, Kit, I get it. Now, get out of here so I can heal you without others seeing."

Pulling himself back to the real world, where only a few moments had passed, Naruto excused himself into the locker room to wrap bandages around his arm where Pyrrha had stabbed it. He didn't need them, not since the fox was healing it very quickly, but it was better to avoid the awkward question of why he didn't have any scratches only an hour after he got stabbed to the bone.

'You know, this is why Aura would probably be useful. I could have stabbed her and it wouldn't have made any mark at all,' He waited, but the fox seemed to be focusing on his arm.

Deciding he needed to do something that he hadn't ever done, even with all the help he had gotten, Naruto went back into his mindscape.

"Hey, Kyūbi?"

"If you want me to heal you, I need to focus, Kit."

"I just wanted to say… Thanks. For all the help you've given me. I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Be screaming in pain, rolling around on that arena floor?"

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Seriously though, Kyūbi, what is your name? It feels wrong to call you Kyūbi like this."

"Kit, only one man was ever allowed to know my name. I won't soil it by giving it to a brat like you. Don't forget, I only help you so I can eventually break free and ravage the world once again."

"Even so, you're the only one who's always been there for me," he smiled at his small joke.

"Hmph. A pity I can't heal your sense of humor."

"Hey!" Naruto complained. The fox just laughed at him. Naruto smiled again, this time out of hope. "Hey, Kyūbi, do you-"

"No, I don't. That's not something I would ever lower myself to."

Naruto turned away defiantly, "I bet you don't even-"

"I know everything you have ever thought in your entire life. So yes, I know what you were going to ask, and, as I said, I would never lower myself to being friends or comrades with a human."

Naruto grinned at him, that foxlike grin that spoke of mischief, "Hey, you were the one who said I wasn't human. So what do you say?"

"No."

Naruto sighed, "Fine. But I'm not giving up. I will find out your name by the time I die, even if it's the last thing I do. It just feels like I'm insulting you every time I want to talk to you."

"You speak of my glorious tails when you call me Kyūbi. You call me the strongest Bijuu. It's a compliment to me, Naruto."

Naruto smiled a little, missing the fox calling him by his name, and pulled himself back to the real world, only to find Pyrrha waving her hand in front of his face, "Naruto?"

He blinked, and turned to look at her, "What?"

She looked down sheepishly, "Well, I… I wanted to make sure you were ok after that… Sorry."

He waved her off, "Pssh. This is nothing. I had a friend at one point that stabbed me through the chest, with his hand coming out the other side. Needless to say, I was in the hospital for a long time after that fight."

She looked to be speechless, but still she got out a question, almost like a reflex, "Why did he stab you?"

"Oh, I was just trying to bring him back home one day and we got into a fight," He wasn't really lying, even if it was only a half-truth.

"Oh, my," Pyrrha didn't seem to have a good way to reply. Instead, the two fighters made their ways back to the seats, as the next two- Yang and Cardin- made their ways down to the floor. When he walked out, everyone stared at Naruto like he was some kind of alien.

He leaned over to Pyrrha, asking her, "Why do they keep doing that?"

"Hm?" She looked over to the people staring at him. "Oh, that. Because of my talent, everyone calls me 'The Invincible Girl.' When you challenged and beat me, it was a shock to them."

"Ohhh… You know, I could see why. It's only because I've been trained to analyze my opponent's abilities all my life that I knew what-"

He was cut off by Yang, "HEY NARUTO! CATCH!"

He turned, and raised his hand to catch his weapons pouch that he had left on the floor, calling back to her, "Thanks, Yang!"

As he turned back to Pyrrha, he noticed Ruby was staring at him, literally shaking in her seat. She seemed like she was about to take off like a rocket.

He turned back to Pyrrha, finishing his thought, "But yeah, it took a little while and a lot of brain power to work out what you were doing. You're good. You'd fit right in in my village."

She smiled at him. He went back to sit with his team, where Melissa congratulated him on his victory, "I knew you were fast, but damn… I couldn't even keep track of you. Ruby kept jumping up, all excited. None of us got why, but she said that she could see you the entire time. She even questioned us when we said that you were moving too fast… wow. That was incredible, Naruto."

Even Troy looked impressed, "I have to agree with her, Naruto. You fight similarly to me, but your fluidity… it was unbelievable. You went so easily from one strike to the next. How did you come up with that style?"

Naruto blushed from all the praise, "Oh, it's nothing I came up with. It's something I saw someone in my home village do, and then I copied it for the entrance exam… nothing special."

Diana, who had been devouring her brownies, looked up from them, "Are you kidding? It's incredible!"

Naruto laughed, "Not the brownies, Diana. I already know how great those are."

"Oh. Ok!" Even having spent his life surrounded by characters like Lee, Guy, and even, to an extent, Kakashi, Naruto was still thrown off by just how much energy Diana always seemed to have. It was like she downed gallons of caffeine every morning. And yet, as far as Naruto knew, she had never even touched any caffeine.

"Feel Pain, Contemplate Pain, Accept Pain, and Know Pain. Those who do not know Pain will never understand true peace!"

"SHINRA TENSEI!"

The village was ravaged from the center outwards by the god known as Pain, as he released a devastating wave of chakra to crush everything beneath him. In the end, all that was left was a crater filled with dust and rubble.

They weren't even nightmares from his past, nor were they possible in the slightest… right?

No way could any shinobi be that powerful, as to destroy the entire village with one attack. Naruto had nothing to worry about.

Although, the dream did certainly serve a good purpose. It reminded Naruto that he needed to start practicing his Sage Mode in this world, with its different energy. And without Fukasaku for help, he assumed it would take quite a while.

"You know, I could just give you my chakra. As my Jinchūriki, you need no power other than mine."

Naruto scoffed, "Right, and you'll give me your chakra whenever I ask?"

"I would give you my chakra, Kit, when it's needed for you to survive."

"Exactly my point."

So instead of reliving his days in Konoha, he spent his time meditating on the roof trying to grasp the natural energy. While he could sense it, it was almost like it rejected him, like how the nature energy back on Mount Myōboku had.

For several weeks, his life became a repeating grind of classes, meditation, and sleeping.

One night, he was on the roof when he heard the door beneath him open. Blake burst out of it, looking panicked. He hopped down behind her, as she looked around.

"Where is he? I know he said he spent time up here…" She turned, nearly fainting from fright when she saw Naruto standing there unexpectedly.

"Are you ok, Blake?" Naruto asked, concern sprinkled into the question.

"Uh… no, not really. I got into an argument with Weiss, and I accidentally let slip that I was a Faunus and a part of the White Fang. I didn't know what to do, so I ran. Please, please, come with me."

Naruto, being the kind of person he was, didn't want his friends to be alone in distress, no matter what.

"Alright. Let's go," he said, nodding. She looked overjoyed at his agreement. She practically dragged him down the stairs and out the front door. As they passed the fountain, Naruto heard some kind of noise. He sniffed the air, getting a faint tinge of… a monkey. Probably a Faunus, all things considered.

"Come out!" He called angrily. A boy with blond hair, more platinum than Naruto's, jumped down from a light post. He held his hands up.

"Alright, alright, no need for hostility," He said very casually. "I was just wondering about your friend with the bow."

Naruto glowered at him. "Alright, sorry," he said, backing away, hands still in the air.

Blake didn't seem upset, just a little surprised at the appearance of the boy. "No, it's fine, Naruto. He can come, too."

Naruto turned to her, "Who is he, anyway?"

She shrugged, "I'm not sure, but when Weiss assumed he was a criminal based on his tail, that's when the argument started."

Naruto looked back suspiciously at the boy, and then, registering what Blake had said, felt a rush of anger towards Weiss. If she felt that way about Faunus, how did she feel about him? He almost wanted to go confront her about it, but for the fact that Blake needed his support.

"Alright, come on," Naruto said, motioning to the boy with his shoulder. The blond started over to them, making little finger guns.

When Melissa awoke the next morning, the first thing she noticed was that Naruto was missing. The second was that his bed was made, meaning he hadn't slept there the night before. It wasn't an issue, being Saturday, but he hadn't spent a single night not sleeping in it.

So, she asked her teammates if they had seen him, but, to her dismay, they hadn't. The last time they had seen him, he was headed to the roof, to do whatever it was he did up there all the time. Since it was the only lead she had, she decided to go to the roof.

As she passed Team RWBY's room, she noticed the door was open, and voices were wafting out. She heard Ruby's voice first.

"-didn't come back last night. I'm worried, Weiss."

"Well, don't be. She proved she's just a criminal when she ran for it," Melissa heard the heiress say.

Yang's voice was next, "Weiss! Don't say that! She's our friend!"

"Is she?"

"WEISS!"

Melissa walked up to their door, and looked in. Blake wasn't present, and Weiss was crossing her arms, looking away from the two sisters. Melissa walked in, thinking she had figured it out.

"Is Blake missing?" she asked. Weiss sneered.

"Yes, that criminal is gone," she said, anger dripping from her voice.

"Weiss! Stop it!" Yang snapped at her. "We don't know where she is. She let slip she was a Faunus last night, and… ran off."

Melissa nodded in understanding, "She's probably with Naruto, then."

Weiss scoffed, "That makes sense. Criminals always band together."

Everyone else glared at her. She didn't let up, "Don't look at me like that. She admitted she was a criminal herself, and Naruto hasn't said anything about his past. Is it so hard to believe he was in the White Fang?"

Melissa felt an urge to get out her staff. She turned to Yang and Ruby before she could, "We should look for them in Vale. If I know Naruto, he'll go where the ramen is. That boy has an obsession."

Ruby spoke up, "I hope they're ok. Blake seemed scared when she left."

Yang put her arm around Ruby in a sisterly way, "Don't worry, Rubes. That's why she went to find Naruto."

Weiss seemed like she was about to speak again, but before she could Melissa shot her a dark look, and she backed off. Melissa turned back to Ruby and Yang, "Any ideas where Blake might go?"

Ruby shook her head, and Yang thought for a moment before shrugging.

"So then, we should start with wherever ramen is sold," Melissa said. "Anyone know any places?"

"There aren't any places that sell ramen in Vale," Yang said. "So, we're left with no leads whatsoever."

"We could just-"

Melissa growled, "Weiss, if you say a single word about the White Fang, I swear I will rip your arm off."

"I guess our best bet is to walk around Vale, and keep our eyes out," suggested Yang. Ruby and Melissa nodded in agreement, and the four of them left to look for the two Faunus.

At a café in Vale, Blake was finishing her tale to Sun, a tale Naruto had already heard, "So, I left. I decided I no longer wanted to use my skills to aid in their violence, and instead, I would dedicate my life to becoming a Huntress. So here I am: a criminal hiding in plain view, all with the help of a little black bow." To demonstrate her point, she wiggled her ears, causing the bow to move along with them.

Sun nodded lightly. "So… have you told any of your friends this?" He asked, eyeing Naruto.

She half-heartedly shook her head, "Only Naruto, and he sort of dragged it out of me."

Naruto nodded, then perked his head up as he heard a familiar voice in the distance.

"BLAKE! NARUTO!" Yang called out, for what felt like the hundredth time. Ruby and Melissa were doing the same, while Weiss followed along unhelpfully.

Ruby turned to Weiss, pouting, "Weiss! You're not helping!"

Weiss spoke with sarcasm layering her tone, "Oh, you know who might be able to help? The police!"

Melissa rounded on her almost instantly, "Shut. Up. Naruto isn't a criminal, and if he went along to help Blake, then she can't be either."

Weiss almost laughed, "And you just know he isn't a criminal? And besides, Blake ran as soon as she realized what she said. Why would she unless she had something to hide?"

Melissa heard a new voice behind them, and nearly jumped out of her skin alongside the members of Team RWBY, "Ooh, like a present?"

"GAH! PENNY!" Ruby yelled at the orange-haired girl who had suddenly appeared behind them. "Where did you come from?"

Penny ignored the question, "Hey guys! What are you up to? And who is this?" She was looking at Melissa, who hadn't met her either.

Yang answered, "We're looking for our friends Blake and Naruto. Also, this is Melissa."

Penny seemed to ignore the mention of Naruto and Melissa, "Oh, you mean the Faunus girl?"

They all stared at her, before Ruby asked, "Wait, how did you know that?"

Penny pointed to her head, "Uh… The cat ears?"

Laughing a little, Yang asked her, "What cat ears? She wears a bow…"

She trailed off, as the four of them were practically hit in the face with realization.

As they stood in silence, Penny spoke up, "Who's Naruto?"

The question, giving them something they could focus on, snapped them out of their self-criticism. "He was my teammate," Melissa answered. "And he recently started spending time with Blake, so I'm guessing he could tell her Faunus heritage. He's a Faunus himself, so…"

Penny nodded, "Well, then, let's go find them!"

Melissa stared at her. "That was the idea…" She said. "But we have no idea where to look."

"Well, where would they go?"

Melissa sighed, "We don't know, Penny. That's why we were wandering around, calling their names."

"Yeah. They haven't shown up anywhere," Ruby chimed in. "Right, guys?"

Silence followed. Ruby and Melissa turned to find Yang and Weiss had left them behind.

Yang groaned. It had been several hours since they had started search, and the sun was starting to set. She and Weiss had been walking from store to store all day, asking if they had seen a girl wearing white and black with a bow and a Faunus with her. To be more accurate, Yang was asking, and Weiss kept making her disapproval known.

They had been friends for several months, and yet Weiss was willing to disregard all of that at the mention that Blake was a Faunus. On top of that, she had assumed Naruto was a criminal just because Blake had gone to him for help when she was scared.

While Yang was asking a baker, Weiss stood off to the side, clucking her tongue. When they walked out, Yang complained about the search, "This is hopeless. You really don't care if we find them, do you?" She added, seeing Weiss's even expression.

"Don't be stupid. Of course I do. I'm just afraid of what Blake will say when we do," Weiss began forwards, calling back to the blonde, "The innocent never run, Yang!"

She kept walking, leaving Yang to stew in her thoughts.

"So… What are we doing, anyways?" Naruto asked, breaking the long silence.

Blake shook her head, "I still don't believe the White Fang is behind all of these robberies. They've never needed that much Dust before."

"Well, first time for everything," Naruto said.

"You know what?" Sun said. "He's right. What if they did? What if the White Fang needed all the Dust they could get their hands on? So then, to prove they didn't do it, you would have to go to the place where they would go if they were to do it, and not find them there, right?" To emphasize his point, he started making little finger guns again.

"Maybe, but do you have any idea where that would be?" Naruto asked.

"Well, while I was on the ship, I heard some guys talking about offloading a huge shipment of Dust coming in from Atlas."

"Wait, what ship?" Naruto asked, not having heard mention of any ship before.

"Oh, nothing. I came here as a stowaway on a boat," Sun brushed off the question.

"How huge, Sun?" Blake asked.

"Huge."

Naruto waited, but he didn't elaborate.

Blake decided for them, "Alright. Then we'll stake out the shipment."

"So, Blake was your friend?" Penny asked, despite already having received confirmation earlier that day. She still seemed to ignore the mention of Naruto, as well.

Ruby sighed, "Yes, Penny."

Feeling the need to defend her partner, Melissa spoke up, "Naruto is our friend, too." Ruby nodded.

"But you're mad at them?" The girl asked.

"Yes. Well, I'm not. Weiss is," Ruby answered, looking around the streets.

Penny kept up the questions, "Is she friends with them?"

Ruby shrugged, looking at Melissa for help. Melissa offered it, "Maybe. We're not really sure. I'm just worried about what they're doing."

Penny looked confused, "Why not?"

Ruby looked upset, but answered anyways, "Well, Blake might not be who we thought she was, and Naruto ran off with her."

"Is she a man?!" Penny gasped.

Melissa laughed at the strange girl, as Ruby turned around to face her, "No! No, Penny, She's…" She paused, trying to think. "I don't know what she is. She didn't exactly talk to us before she decided to run off."

"I don't have a lot of friends, but if I did, I would want them to talk to me about things."

Ruby turned back around, looking down sadly, "Me, too…"

Melissa agreed, "Yeah, especially something as big as this."

"Did I miss anything?" Sun asked, laying prone next to Blake. She was leaning over the edge slightly, looking out at the docks, while Naruto sat cross-legged nearby, with his hands together in some sort of prayer. He was weird.

"Not really. They've offloaded the crates from the boat. Now they're just sitting there," Blake answered, looking over at him.

"Cool. I stole you some food," said the monkey Faunus, holing out an apple.

Blake glared at him, "Do you always break the law without a second thought?"

Sun tried to be funny, "Hey, weren't you in a cult or something?" Blake glared at him more. "Ok, too soon."

The wind started to pick up, and overhead, a Bullhead began flashing its searchlights, trying to find a place to land. It began to descend right into the middle of the collection of crates, extending a ramp on which a figure with a white mask appeared on.

"Oh, no…" Blake let out. It was clear she had hoped for anything else, anything that didn't prove Weiss was right.

"Is that them?" Sun asked. From where they were hiding, they could see the bloody wolf emblem of the White Fang emblazoned on the back of the man's outfit. He motioned to other people inside the Bullhead.

"Alright, grab the tow cables!" They could just make out the man's order from their hiding place.

"You really didn't think they were behind it, did you?" Sun questioned, studying the scene before them.

She answered sadly, "No. I think deep down I knew. I just didn't want to be right."

From inside the Bullhead, a new voice rang out. It was one that none of them recognized, but appeared to belong to the man strutting down the ramp, holding a cane, "Hey! What's the holdup? We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you animals try to pick up the pace?"

Blake narrowed her eyes, seeing Roman Torchwick stood before a group of White Fang members, ordering them around. "This isn't right. The White Fang would never work with a Human. Especially not one like that." She stood up and pulled out her katana before walking off the edge of the roof.

Sun stared at her with alarm, asking, "Hey, what are you doing?" as she dropped of the crate. He turned back to Naruto, who hadn't said a word or even moved the entire time. "We need to help her!" Naruto still didn't move. Sun rolled his eyes. "Fine, I'll help her myself," he declared, as he dropped of the roof after Blake.

Blake hit the ground, and began moving stealthily from crate to crate, sneaking up on Torchwick. As she got closer, she could hear him berate and insult one of the White Fang members, "No, you idiot! This isn't a leash!" Blake appeared behind him with her blade at his throat. "What the- Oh, for f-"

Blake cut him off, "NOBODY MOVE!"

Some of the members of the White Fangs aimed their guns at her, while the rest gripped swords, ready to attack the moment an opportunity presented itself.

Roman taunted her, "Woah! Take it easy there, little lady."

The White Fang began encircling Blake, as she reached up and removed her bow with her free hand, revealing her ears.

"Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum?" she called out, as they lowered their weapons slightly, unsure after seeing her ears. Roman laughed at her.

"Oh, kid, didn't you get the memo?"

"What are you talking about?" she asked.

"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together!"

Blake held her blade tighter to his throat, "Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation."

Suddenly, the air filled with the sound of turbines, as several other Bullheads appeared, flying over to the docks. Blake looked in horror.

Roman, looking up, took the chance to taunt her further, "I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation..." Seeing her distracted, Roman pointed his cane at the ground beneath their feet, and pulled the trigger.

Hearing an explosion, Melissa, Ruby, and Penny looked around wildly, seeing a cloud of smoke over by the docks.

Melissa leaned over to Ruby, "You don't think…"

Ruby answered the unfinished question, "Probably."

Though the explosion had hurt her very little, Blake rolled away from it quickly, dodging more as Torchwick kept up a barrage of attacks. She sprinted behind a container, and Torchwick began sauntering over slowly, taunting her all the while, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty…"

He was hit in the face with a banana peel from above, and he looked up to see a boy with a monkey tail leap down, yelling out, "Leave her alone!" He landed on Roman, then rolled off and sprang up. More White Fang members came out of the new Bullheads, surrounding Sun as Torchwick got to his feet.

As if he couldn't live without insulting his enemies, Torchwick started on Sun, "You're not the brightest banana in the bunch, are you, kid?" The White Fang charged the monkey Faunus, though he managed to dodge their slashes and get some of the soldiers with his fists and kicks until he was forced roll out of the way, pulling out a collapsible red staff as he went. Proving his skill, he went from grunt to grunt, beating each of them in one well-placed blow, before slamming it into the ground and creating a shockwave that took out the last of them

Blake peeked around the corner of the container to watch Sun jump around and beat more White Fang soldiers, causing one to fly over Roman's head. The crime boss growled in annoyance and pointed his cane at Sun, firing a shot that the Faunus defended himself from just as Blake leapt into the fight.

She yelled out, "He's mine!"

Blake moved in close and began to use her semblance to become little more than a blur of afterimages as she attack Torchwick with both blades of her weapon, as he backed away and deflected each would-be blow with his cane. Blake continued to attack the mobster to try and find a weak spot, but her enemy, while barely deflecting the attacks, landed several hits on Blake until one final beating with his cane sent her down.

Just as he dealt with Blake, Sun appeared right behind her and disconnected his staff in two spinning circles of flame-firing shotgun nun-chucks. Sun began a barrage of attacks with each gun at Torchwick, but even with the rapid series of shots and flying bullets, the mobster with no training managed to defend himself against every bullet and hit until a millisecond-long pause allowed Blake to get a slash in and knock him back.

On his back, the mobster spotted a container hanging by a crane right above his opponents, and fired his cane at its supports. Blake leapt behind it, but Sun barely managed to avoid it when he jumped forward, ending up right below the nozzle of Torchwick's cane. Just as he was about to fire, his cane was sent straight into the ground and out of his hands by a new arrival.

Torchwick looked at the boy who had disarmed him, as the boy was still looking down from his drop into the fight. He had on some sort of red cloak with an orange jumpsuit underneath it. The ground beneath him had cracked from the force with which he'd punched Torchwick's cane. The boy looked up, fury in his eyes.

His eyes that were two red slits.

He spoke, but not with the voice that a boy should have. When he spoke, Torchwick didn't so much hear it as he felt it.

"You won't lay a hand on my friends!"

As the sound of the voice went through him, Torchwick realized that all the anger and hatred he felt wasn't his own. It was the boy's. Except for his fear. It felt exhilarating. He grinned.

"Finally some fun, not some kiddies playing hero," he taunted. It was a mistake, just like almost killing the monkey boy.

Faster than he could register, he was sent flying into a container behind him, denting it inwards a foot or two. He got up, laughing, as the boy appeared in front of him, poised to send him into the ground. Only in the instant the boy had paused to attack was Torchwick able to move to the side even slightly, avoiding the worst of his attack. As it was, he felt most of the bones in his left arm break, as the boy struck the top of his shoulder.

Several members of the White Fang came up behind the boy, pointing weapons at him. The boy turned just enough to glare at them through the corner of his eye, and began pinballing from one Faunus to the next. In all of the confusion, Torchwick began to move to a Bullhead, grabbing his cane and resisting the urge to scream in pain. Oh, how Neo would have a field day with this one.

He boarded the Bullhead, and all three took off, only for one of them to be stopped by something, and another to be torn apart by a massive laser. He looked down around the docks, and saw a new girl, one with orange hair, had arrived on the scene.

He shook his head, muttering "These kids just keep getting weirder…"

Blake stared at the carnage before her, as Naruto went from one terrorist to the next, tearing off one of their faces as he attacked wildly and ferociously, like an animal. His eyes had gone red, and changed into vertical slits. She couldn't process what she was seeing. And on top of that, he had done it to protect Sun, a friend who had helped Blake find out all she had learned here tonight.

Eventually, there were no more conscious members of the White Fang left. At some point, Ruby had appeared next to Blake, trying to talk to her, to ask where she had been. Along with her had come that Penny girl and Naruto's partner, Melissa. Penny had taken down two Bullheads, while Melissa had mimicked Blake in watching Naruto.

Naruto calmed himself down, his eyes returning to normal. He looked back to see Melissa and Blake with their mouths open, and Sun staring at him with wide eyes, as he tried to thank him for saving him. He waved off the gratitude. What were friends for, after all?

Thinking on his feet, Naruto came up with a good lie for what had happened. He walked over to Blake, kneeling down and putting his hand on her shoulder, shaking her back into focus. They went over to where everyone else was sat.

"Naruto… What-" She tried to ask.

"It's something that happens when I… embrace my fox side, for lack of a better term, or when I get angry enough to react on instinct. I fight a bit feral-y, I know. I don't like to do it because it could cause me to accidentally attack a friend. Still just me, though. Don't worry."

"But your eyes…"

"That's what they would normally look like, if I were a fox," he explained. She nodded in understanding. She seemed to believe him. He was lucky he hadn't leaked any red chakra. That would've been hard to explain. He had been trying to get into Sage Mode, but he had noticed that his friends were in danger.

He explained to Melissa in the same way, and she nodded in understanding. Ruby just looked at with admiration for how fast he had moved, with such control.

"Kit, why did you use my chakra for the monkey?"

'Hey! Don't call him a monkey! He's a Faunus, too.'

"Why did you use my chakra to help him?"

'Because he's a friend, and I always try to help my friends however I can.'

"But, why not use your own chakra or that 'Sage Mode' you love so much?"

'I can't get into Sage Mode here, and besides, you're stronger, and your chakra is, too.'

"HA! So you admit it! I'm stronger than Sage Mode. So why do you need it?"

'So that I don't have to keeping basically stealing your chakra without your permission.'

The fox was silent. Naruto assumed he had just gotten what he wanted, but in truth, the fox was taken aback by a human not wanting to take his power. It was so different from his previous Jinchūriki.

Naruto was taken out of his conversation with the Kyūbi by the arrival of Weiss and Yang, as Ruby ran up to Weiss, Blake having explained her story while Naruto was talking with Melissa.

"Look Weiss, it's not what you think, she explained the whole thing. See, she doesn't actually have a bow, she has kitty ears and they're actually kind of cute..." Ruby began rambling, as Weiss ignored her, and stepped over to Blake.

"Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with the-"

"Stop!" The heiress yelled. "Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you?" She paused, as Blake stayed silent. "Twelve hours. That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours, I've decided…"

She paused again, as the rest of them looked on in worry, before she exhaled slightly, "I don't care."

Blake's eyes widened slightly as she asked, "You don't care?"

"You said you're not one of them anymore, right?"

"No, I-I haven't been since I was younger-"

Weiss cut her off, "Ah-bah-bah-bah-bah! I don't want to hear it. All I want to know is that the next time something this big comes up... you'll come to your teammates. And not some…" She looked around her to Naruto and Sun, the latter scratching the back of his head nervously "Other people."

Blake looked back at Ruby and Yang, before answering "Of course."

Weiss smiled and nodded, before a moment of silence followed, only for Ruby to break both it and the seriousness of the moment, "YEAH! Team RWBY is back together!"

Weiss pointed somewhat accusingly at Naruto and Sun, both of whom were watching Ruby with some amusement, and said, "I'm still not quite sure about how I feel about you two!"

Naruto raised his hands indignantly, "What did I do? I mean, he's a stowaway, but me?"

"Hey!" Sun yelled, eliciting a laugh from the rest of them.

Ruby paused for a moment, looking around, "Hey, wait a minute… Where's Penny?"

Later that night, Blake and Naruto were called into Professor Ozpin's office. As they rode the elevator together, Blake kept looking over at Naruto, gratitude evident in her expression. He had dropped everything just to give her company when she wanted to hide from her team, and then had even, as he put it, given into his fox side to help Sun. And yet, somehow an entire village had picked on him? She couldn't work it out.

He was a strange enigma. He was clearly very strong, but he didn't usually use his full strength in a fight, because he might hurt his friends. Also, unlike every other Huntsmen or Huntress she had met, he didn't use a highly customized weapon, just his kunai, and on occasion shuriken. In fact, Ruby went nuts every time she saw him using a kunai, because she kept telling him to get something else, something unique.

The elevator reached the top of the tower, and the doors opened, revealing a dimly lit office, with Ozpin sat at his desk, hands crossed and covering the lower half of his face. The two Faunus walked in, awkwardly standing near the elevator until the headmaster gestured to the seats in front of his desk.

"Sit."

They obliged, though Naruto was noticeably nervous. Ozpin began, "Well, this has certainly be an eventful evening."

Blake grunted, while Naruto eyed the mysterious headmaster carefully. He continued, "I'm sure that after a night of thwarting attempted robbery, you both probably just want to go home and take a nap. But, I was hoping that maybe we could have a chance to talk."

Naruto and Blake answered affirmatively. "Wonderful. As you know, in order to enroll at my academy, students must first pass a rigorous entrance exam. Most applicants spend years of preparation training at one of the many combat schools around the world. You are two of the few that did not. And you both passed the exam with flying colors."

Naruto spoke up first, "I was raised in a village where we were trained to fight from a young age. I have experience on the battlefield, sir."

Blake spoke after he finished, "I was raised outside the kingdoms. If you can't fight, you can't survive."

The headmaster focused on her for a moment, "Well, you have most certainly survived, Blake. I admire your drive. And I am proud to run a school that accepts individuals from all walks of life. Rich, poor, Human..." He paused, sipping his coffee and eyeing the both of them. "Faunus..." Blake glared at him.

He spoke to her again, "Why do you wear that bow, Blake? Why hide who you are?"

"You may be willing to accept the Faunus, Professor Ozpin, but your species is not."

Ozpin nodded thoughtfully, "True, but we are continuing to take strides to lessen the divide."

Blake scoffed slightly, "With all due respect, you need to start taking some larger strides. Until then, I'd rather avoid any unnecessary attention. I want people to see me for who I am, not what I am."

"And what are you?" Ozpin asked. She stared blankly.

"I don't understand what you're asking," She said.

"How did you know the White Fang would be at the shipyard tonight?"

"We didn't. We just happened to be at the right place at the right time," Blake answered.

"You wouldn't have been the first. But what happened tonight was not an isolated incident," Ozpin explained. "I may be your headmaster, but I am also a Huntsman, and it is my sworn duty to protect this world from the forces that conspire against it. Blake, Naruto, are you sure there is nothing else you would like to tell me?"

"I'm sure."

"Very well. Thank you for your time, Ms. Belladonna. You may leave. Mr. Uzumaki, a word, if I may," Ozpin said, turning back to Naruto, whose eyes widened just slightly. Blake left, looking back to Naruto before she did.

Once she had left, Ozpin began the recording of Naruto at the docks, fighting more wildly than a whirlwind, including when he ripped off the face of a raccoon Faunus. At the end of the recording, Ozpin looked to Naruto, "Now, what is that ability? I neglected to say this in front of Ms. Belladonna, but you have no records whatsoever. Why is that?"

Naruto answered his second question first, "My home village, along with any records I may have had, were destroyed by some bandits. We were a relatively unknown village, being paranoid of outsiders, to the point of destroying the remains of our huntsmen to keep our enemies from 'unlocking their secrets,' was what our leader always said."

"Well, that would certainly explain where your records have gone. But what about those red eyes? I suspect that there may be more to it than simply giving in to your animalistic side."

Naruto raised an eyebrow at him. This man would make an excellent shinobi. He had expertly hidden his disbelief of Naruto when he had told him about his village, moving on from a subject he would hear no more about it. He had also clearly 'done his homework,' as it was.

"I didn't tell this to them, but… in my home village, I was the only Faunus. Very few people had ever even seen a Faunus around where I come from, so I was an anomaly. When I was seven years old, the doctors in the village…" He faked a shudder. "Sorry. They did these… experiments on me, like they were trying to find out what I was. In the process, they affected my fox side, leading it to be more potent and present. That's part of the reason why my whiskers have grown so much. They used to just be single lines."

Ozpin, though he had on a mask of calm, felt frustrated at his race. Such inhumane tests, and on a boy, no less, just because he was different than them. And in the process, they seemed to have created what most humans viewed the Faunus as: wild half-humans.

Nevertheless, he was happy the boy didn't let it control him, and had even found a way to suppress it. But…

"Naruto," Ozpin spoke with concern. "I need you to promise you will not use this ability in the presence of others. And if you must use it alone, be careful not to use it for too long. Several of the White Fang members that you attacked said that they felt menace and anger rolling off of you. If you use this where there are Grimm, you will only bring more."

Naruto nodded, "I won't, unless I need to, to save my friends."

Ozpin smiled warmly, "That is acceptable. Thank you for your time, Mr. Uzumaki. You may go now."

At the bottom of the elevator, Naruto found Blake waiting, something which surprised him. He assumed that she would've wanted to spend time with her team, since she had been with him all weekend.

"So… What did he want to talk about?" She asked him.

"Oh, not much. Just the whole red eyes thing," Naruto wasn't lying, not really.

"Naruto… I just wanted to say… Thank you."

He smiled, "For what?"

She looked down, "I dragged you into my problems, and yet you instantly dropped everything and spent an entire day keeping me company while I tried to hide from my friends, because I thought they would see me as-"

She was cut off by Naruto pulling her into a friendly hug, "Anytime, Blake. Anytime."

Right! Another chapter done!

And yes, I know the scene with Ozpin happened in an interrogation room. I just screwed up a little, and couldn't think of a good transition to a police precinct. As with many of the continuity breaks, like how in this Blake and Naruto were only missing for one day, it boils down to one thing: LAZINESS!

So, for those of you who hated how I 'nerfed' Naruto, I hope you enjoyed one of his two fight scenes in this one. I don't personally enjoy the stories where Naruto steps all over his opposition with no problems, but I'll grant that Torchwick has no chance against him, at least not alone.

So, because of guest reviews, I need to spend time responding here.

To the guest saying I don't know about the 'Power levels' of Naruto and RWBY, I have this to say: Fuck off. I have read the Naruto manga front to back, I've watched the anime all the way through, and I even have the wiki and a few official data books open to help me with this. And RWBY has far less to know. Rooster Teeth also successfully made an anime where both the really weak people and the god-level people are feasible. I mean, Yang's semblance is kind of proof of that.

It has potentially infinite power, as much as her Aura can take. The same goes for Ruby. She demonstrated more advanced mastery of her semblance at the start of Volume 4, and we haven't even got to the silver eyes yet. Weiss is probably going to have some more tutoring scenes with Winter in Volume 5 like we saw in Volume 3, meaning that the one with the least potential on Team RWBY is Blake, funnily enough, since she started off much better than the rest of her team.

But also, RWBY is that anime where how strong you are doesn't necessarily decide who you can beat. Just look at Emerald. She fucked with the head of the RWBY equivalent to a Jinchūriki, and would have killed her like that if she hadn't slid her foot slightly. Even still, they beat her in the end.

Right, sorry for rambling.

And yes, I know I said in last chapter's AN that I would focus on the OC's this chapter, but I got side tracked with the dramatics. Next chapter, I'm thinking of having no canon scenes, and devoting all of it to Team MDNT.

One of my friends gave me a scary thought, however: Diana hangs out with Nora. I might just have to do that, even if it needs to be in an omake. Speaking of, I'm going to start doing those on occasion, so give me any ideas you want to see happen, like Naruto washing all of the windows of Beacon's tower. And before you ask, no, I'm not doing that one.

I apologized before, I'll apologize now: Sorry for rambling so much. I just get really into these ANs.

Until Chapter 5: The Midnight!